Survey of Church Membership, 1971 (ICPSR 7520)

Citation

National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. Survey of Church Membership, 1971. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07520.v1

Summary

This data collection contains information by region, state,
and county on churches and church membership for 53 Christian
denominations in the United States in 1971. These estimates or
enumerations by denomination were collected by the National Council of
Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (NCCC) from each reporting
denomination. The data are recorded for the nation as a whole,
regions, states, SMSAs, and counties. This dataset was obtained from
the Office of Research, Evaluation and Planning of the NCCC. In
addition to data identifying the units of record, data for each
reporting denomination are present, including: (1) number of churches,
(2) number of communicant, confirmed, or full members, and (3) total
number of "adherents." When incomplete information was supplied about
a denomination's total number of adherents, an estimate was made by
NCCC and identified in the data as such.

Citation

National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. Survey of Church Membership, 1971. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07520.v1

Time Period(s)

1971

Date of Collection

1973-01-10 -- 1973-12-31

Data Collection Notes

When a denomination supplied only a count of its
communicant, confirmed, or full members, NCCC estimated the total
adherents by means of a computer-based procedure. The total population
of an area (as reported in the First Count 1970 Census tabulations)
was divided by the total population 14 years of age and over. The
resulting figure was multiplied by the number of confirmed members
reported for the denomination to produce the estimated total number of
adherents. When such a procedure for estimating adherents was
employed, the "estimate indicator" variable for that denomination
contains the value of "1".

Universe

Data Source

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1984-03-18

Version Date

1992-02-16

Version History

1984-03-18 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

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